The more you reason the less you create.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Win the dreams. Period.

Begin to pursue your dreams.

Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that's always a sign that he has lost hope, out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose...

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

In all dying our ages are the same.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress